tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 26 10:21:34 2008

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Re: Klingon phonology in regular expressions

Mark J. Reed ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

The question is, what does "initial" and "final" mean in this context?

Imagine a hypothetical dialect that lets us play with the {jIloy}
example.  Say it turns final -l into -lh (sounds like tlh without the
t) and initial l into R (which sounds like an English R, vs  lowercase
r which sounds the same as in ta' Hol).

Then the word for "neighbor" would be {jIlh} and the word for "guess"
would be {Roy}.

So what happens to ta' Hol {jIloy}?  Would it be {jIRoy} when it means
"I guess" and {jIlhoy} when it means "dear neighbor"?  That seems to
be what David's postulating; does that match the descriptions (and
onscreen examples) of the Morskan and other dialects?

It seems to me that  -l- is neither initial nor final but medial,
which means it would not  affected by either rule, but would stay
{jIloy}...

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